Threshing-machine.



J. B. ELUGTT.

THRESHING RHCHINE.

APPLICATION mu) mun. me.

Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

J. B. ELUOTT.

THRESHING MACHSNE.

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Patented Apr. 16. 1918 1. B. ELLlOTI. THRESHING MACHlNE.

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Patented Apr. 16. 1918.

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JOHN B. ELLIOTT, OF WIGHITA, KANSAS.

THRESHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

Application flied July 29, 1918. Serial No. 112,127.

To all whom it ma concern:

Be it known t mt 1, JOHN B. ELLIOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Threshing-Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others killed in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

- This invention relates to a machine for threshing wheat, rye, oats or analogous grain and the rimary object of the invention is to provide a machine of this nature which niav be driven over a field of growing grain,

and which machine will gather in the heads of the grain, and thresh the kernels therefrom, leaving the straw standing upon the field thereby eliminating the necessity of cutting the grain, or heading the same by a separate machine.

Another object of thi invention is to provide a threshing machine of this nature which includes a reel, a pair of feeding rollers, and an ordinar rotary cylinder and concave mechanism ,or beating and breaking up the heads of the grain for facilitating the extraction of the kernels therefrom, which reel is positioned for feeding the heads of the standing grain to the feeding rollers, which rollers in turn feed the heads of the grain to the rotary cylinder and concave structure.

Another object of this invention is to rovide a structure including a plurality 0 vibratory grain ans, racks and sieves for eiiiciently separating the kernels from the chaff, of the grain heads, and to provide a conveyor structure for conveying the grain heads from the c linder and concave structure to the plura ity of vibratory grain pans, racks and sieves.

A further object of this invention is to provide a tailings conveyor for receiving the tailings from the separator structure an conveying them to the cylinder for repassage through the separator structure.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a blower fun for blowing the chaff rearwardly of themachine during the travel of the same.

With the foregoing and other objects in view this invention consists in such novel combination and arrangement oi parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanymg drawing and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like and corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a si l i elevation of the machine showing parts in vertical section.

Fig. 2 1s a plan view of the machine.

Fig. 3 is a section through the separator structure.

Fi 4 is a detail view showing in section the e evator for elevating the grain heads from the cylinder structure to the separator structure.

Fig. 5 is a rain angers e evator.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of the gearings em.- ployed for rotating the cylinder, reel and feed roller, and

Fi 7 is a detail view of a cylinder tooth used in the construction of this invention.

Referring more particularly to the drawings,'1 designates the supporting frame of the harvester, which sup orting frame is connected through the me ium of. U-shaped bolts 2, to the supporting axle 3 of the device upon which are mounted the usual type of supporting wheels 4. A frame 5 is provided-which is rigidly connected to the supporting axle 3 in any suitable manner. T e frame 5 projects rearwardly from the frame 1 and it has a standardfi rotatably carried by its rear end. An axle 7 is rotatabl supported by the lower end of the Stan ard 6 and it has a supporting wheel 9 mounted thereon. A handle 10 is connected to the upper end of the standard 6 and is rovided for rotating the standard for gui mg the direction of travel of the wheel 9 for steering the direction of travel of the thresl er. A suitable platform 11 is provided on which the operator of the device ma stand.

A reel 15 which is mounts upon a shaft 16 is supported by a suitable supporting structure 17 at the front end of the frame 1, and the reel structure includes a plurality of blades 18 which, during the rotation of the reel are adapted for engaging the heads of the standing grain in a el and idmg detail in section showing the for carrying the grain to the them inwardly between the feeding r0 are 19 and 20. Suitable guiding arms 21 are attached like characters designate.

to the forward corners of the sugporting frame 1 nd are p ided for d1v1 mg the til) grain and guiding it inwardly to the reel structure 15.

The feeding rollers 19 and 20 are positioned one above the other, at the mouth of the cylinder and concave structure which is generically indicated hy the numeral 22.

The cylinder and concave structure 22 includes a rotary cylinder 23 which has a plurality of circllmferentially spaced cylinder teeth 24 carried by its outer surface and arranged in spaced rows, as is ordinary in the construction of threshing cylinders.

The cylinder teeth 24 are preferahly rec-- tangular in shapea and they have their outer ends cut at an incline as shown at 25, to provide relatively sharp cutting edges 26, which will sever the heads of the grain from the straw or stalks, during the rotation of the r 'lindcri The cylinder :23 rotates over a coin-are 13h ol'the ordinary coin-:1 motion. and the operation of the cylinder 23 and the min-aw 28 tend to break up the heads of the grain and l'arilitate in the threshing thereof hon-Jug 35i is positioned over the ryliudi-r 22$ for prevent in the rotation of thr cylinder from throwing the main heads outwardly,

The grain falls from the rourare 28 upon an inclined guiding hoard 30, which guides the grain from the eyliiuler structure to a pair of anger convevers 31 and 32. The auger conveyors 31 and 32 are positioned within housings 33, the forward sides of 'l'llt'll are open as shown at 3% to permit the grain to pass oil of the top of the board 30 into the casings or housings The auger 31 leads from one side of the 'l'hresher to the center while the auger 32 leads from the opposite side of the thresher to the cen ter so that these auger conveyors will feed the grain from the concave to the center of the machine, where it is engaged by an elevator structure 34. The elevator structure 34 includes an eiulless belt which has a plurality of grain engaging flights 36 car ried thereby, and which travel over suitable rollers 37 and 39, and within a housing 39v The upward traveling run of the endless belt travels over a partition 40 which facilitates in carrying the grain upwardly for deposit through a spout 41 into the separa or structure 42. The separator structure 42 llldudes a housing 43 in which is positioned, the usual, type of vihratory riddles, grain pans and screens as indicated at 44, lhe linal riddle or screen indicated by the nil-- meral 45 is positioned for delivering the grain kernels into a delivery spout it; from which the grain is sacked. 1f it; is so dcsired, a slidahle door 47 may he carried by the spout 46 for controlling the outlet of the grain kernels out of the spout 46. A suit able platform 48 is provided for support ing sacks into which the grain is deliv ered by the spout 46. A tailings auger 49 is provided for receiving the tailings from the chafler 44 and the tailiugs auger delivers the tailings to a chute 50 which returns the tailings to the cylinder structure, depositing them upon the cylinder through an opening in the top of the casing 29. A l'an structure 50' is carried by the outer end oi. the housing 43 and the air suc tion into the fan comes through the casing {ti so that the ehafl, fine particles of straw and the like will be drawn into the fan ing' 51 and forced out of the same through a tube 52, which con'nnunicates with the in terior of the fan casingand blows the chaff rcarwardly of the machine.

A prime mover of any ordinary desired type, such as an internal combustion engine, which is indicated at is carried by the supporting frame 1 and it propels a shaft 6] upon which a sprocket 62 is mounted. A sprocket chain 63 travels about the sprocket 62 and about a sprocket 64 which. is mounted upon the vshaft 65 which rotates the cylin der 23. i

Mounted upon the end of the shaft 65, remule from the and upon which the sprocket i4 is I iountcd a gear {it which meshes with a gear 67 mounted upon the shaft 68, upon which the feeding roller 20 is mountiul. The gear 67 preferably has a long face, and a gear 69, which is mounted upon the shaft 70 meshes with the gear 67. The roller 19 is mounted upon the shaft 70 and through the medium of the gears 69 and 67, it will be rotated in a direction oppositely to the rotation of the feeding roller 20, so that the two rollers will rotate for feeding the grain heads inwardly into the cylinder casin 29. A sprocket 72 is mounted upon the she t 7 0 and it is connected through the medium of a sprocket chain 33 and a sprocket 74 to the shaft 16 upon which the reel structure 15 is mounted.

The various riddles and moves 44 and 45, and the tailings auger 49 may be operated in any suitable manner by the prime mover or engine 60, as indicated, in Fig. 2 of the drawings through the medium of a. shaft '76 while the fan 50 is rotated through the medium of a pulley 77 which is operatively connected to a pulley 78 mounted upon the shaft 76% The frame I is rocked, upon the axle 3 as a support, for raising or lowering the front end of the machine to accommodate different heights of grain, by a hand lever 80 which is pivotally supi'iortedby a standard 81 as shown at 82. The standard 81 is carried by the Frame 5. The lever 80 is connected as shown at 83 to a standard 84 which is in turn connected to the frame 1. A standard 85 is carried by the frame 5, and it has a plurality of openings 86 formed therein through which a pin 87 extends for engage ment with the lever 80 for holding it in various adjusted positions.

,1 l The feeding rollers 19 and 20 will feed the y 0 heads of the etanding grain into the casing 29; where the rotary cylinder 28 will sever theheads from the straw or stalks or the gall? learnt the straw standing, and

rest-i an hcstingout the heads of the grain, f on and combination with a concave as he beaten heads of grain fan from the concerns as upon the guiding board 30, which guides tlifigi downwardly to the auger conveyeis 31* M 32; mgr conveyers 31 and 32 carry t e grain to 6 elevation structure 34 which eleVates; the grain and deposits it in the so arator strh c' ture 43, wherein the kernels o the grain are efficiently separated from the chafi. The chaif is blown out of the casing 43 of the separator structure by the operation of the fan 50, while the kernels of the grain fall downwardly through the delivery spout 46 and into suitable sacks or receptacles which may be carried by the platform 48.; The tai ings from the separator structure 42 are returned to the cylinder structure by the tailings auger 49 and the chute 50 and they are reseparated.

From the foregoing description taken in beneath sai concaveftho forwar eolmection with the accompanying drawings of t e the advantages of construction and mm tion of the improved thrash-'- will be readily ap arent to v ing rnddliifie those skilled in the art to which t is invention appertains, and while in the foregoing description, the rifwlple of the operation of this invention has been described together with various features of construction, it is to be understood that certain minor features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts may be altered to suit practical conditions provided such alterations are comprehended within the scope of what is claimed.

What is claimed is:

In a grain thresher, the combination, of

rain threshin means including a rotary t reeher cylin er, a' concave positioned bemath said cylinder, a housing inclosing said cylinder, a In guiding board ostlonetilf 6 lies 0 said housing and grain guiding board forming a moat through whic grain heads pass to said cylinder and concave,- a pair of rollers at said mouth for guiding grain heads between said cylinder and concave, and means for iding the heads of standing grain to set rollers.

In testimony whereof- I fix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN B, ELLIOTT Witnesses:

D. Wm. Woonwr, HARRY S. WILBUR. 

